V.O. Awonusi
List of John Benjamins publications for which V.O. Awonusi plays a role.
Articles
1998 Nigerian English In Political Telemarketing English World-Wide 19:2, pp. 189–204 | Article
Societal multilingualism helps Nigeria to retain English, an exoglossic language, as her lingua franca. English performs both instrumental and integrative functions in Nigeria. The use of English as a language of political campaigns exemplifies one of the important functions given the country's… read more
1990 Whose Standard, Which Model? Towards the Definition of a Standard Nigerian Spoken English for Teaching, Learning and Testing in Nigerian Schools ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 89/90, pp. 91–106 | Article
The adoption of RP as a model of teaching in non-native speaker English societies such as Nigeria seems to have come to say. However, the accent of English that emerged in Nigeria, over the years, (to some linguists) is anything but RP (although some hold the view that there are a few RP speakers… read more